A community service aimed at bringing migrant women together through a love of food has had to shift the way it operates in the face of the coronavirus crisis.
Before lockdown measures were in place, Heart & Parcel ran free face-to-face cooking and English classes for women from migrant communities around Manchester.
Based in Levenshulme, the service is regularly used by hundreds of women each week since it launched in 2015. Co-founders Clare Courtney and Karolina Koścień knew they had to find a way to make things continue in the current climate.
Clare said: “When the lockdown happened, I was lucky enough to be living with filmmaker Kieran Hanson from Kenawa Films. “With our combined skills of filming and teaching, I then applied for a